2014/15 Championship Thread

[Dolphin Ziggler]

First topic message reminder :

Well, it's all decided now.

Birmingham City
Blackburn Rovers
Blackpool
Bolton Wanderers
Bournemouth
Brentford
Brighton & Hove Underdogs
Cardiff City
Charlton Athletic
Derby County
Fulham
Huddersfield Town
Ipswich Town
Leeds United
Middlesbrough
Millwall
Norwich City
Nottingham Forest
Reading
Rotherham United
Sheffield Wednesday
Watford
Wigan Athletic
Wolverhampton Wanderers

Forest have Pearce, Leeds may have investment, Olly has reasons to be cheerful and Wigan don't have European distractions.

[Dolphin Ziggler]

There is a way to fix this, it could be in the welcome stuff

[Crimey]

Just need to go into your profile and change the time back to UTC. I think when forumotion do an update it can reset the clocks.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Tyrone mings is the worst LB in the division. That marking ffs

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

DANIEL AYALA IN INJURY SHOCKER

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Remember when Ipswich won the league in November - that was fun

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Hey derbymanc - worth 40 quid to just see that goal from the nodge

(Still think this will be a draw)

[Derbymanc]

Afternoon Olly, you played well today and that last 5 mins was excruciating. Well played by Grant to keep out 2 fantastic chances and i'd love to hear what Ruddy's excuse was

We really need to pick it up again or it'll be the play offs again

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

I didn't think we were that good, still had the better of the play tho. Ruddy's mistake happened up the other end to me so will have to wait to see it properly.

Jerome and Johnson - how they missed those two chances at the end I'll never know.

Still point and move on - still in a good position

[Derbymanc]

Noone around him at all Olly, just kind of fumbled it.
It's a good point against a promotion rival so won't grumble too much. Gotta beat Boro now though.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Noone around him at all Olly, just kind of fumbled it.
It's a good point against a promotion rival so won't grumble too much. Gotta beat Boro now though.

Ah that's a shame, he's been magnificent recently - shame it had to happen today but as you say point not the end of the world.

Huddersfield away Tuesday night - grim trip that

[Derbymanc]

Get yourself a cheap B and B, stay over and go round the Uni area, you'll have a ball round there (of course the last time I went was around 15 years ago so it might have changed

[NickisBHAFC]

That was brilliant from Jon Ruddy, loved the way he looked at the defence as well

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Was a proper #headsgone moment

[NickisBHAFC]

Is Paddy Bamford gay?

[westisbest]

I'd say he's reasonably happy with his performance.

[Mat]

I see Dean Kiely is already having an effect on Ruddy's performances!

[Fernando]

I remember the days when he was a PL keeper. It makes me miss Antti Niemi he was quality then randomly disappeared.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Is Paddy Bamford gay?

He's out of your league Nick I'm afraid

[NickisBHAFC]

Antti Niemi is our goalkeeping coach.

[dyrewolfe]

DANIEL AYALA IN INJURY SHOCKER

And his replacment (Jonathan Woodgate) is just as injury-prone.


Still, fantastic performance by the mighty Boro. Makes up for the awful showing at Natalie Portman Road.

Now if only Bournemouth, Watford and Derby would stop winning for a bit...

[dyrewolfe]

Is Paddy Bamford gay?

In the old-timey sense of the word...probably. Wrapping a game up with a couple of goals is enough to make most strikers "very happy".

[Nico the gman]

Great performance Saturday,it was unfortunate for Murphy that Ayala went off injured, word has it Murphys still trying to climb out of Woodgates back pocket.Class is permanent.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

THIS LEAGUE MAKES NO SENSE

[GSC]

Bamford beating the sheep single handedly

Makes sense to me

[NickisBHAFC]

One could be forgiven for mistaking championship football to pub football at the new den this evening. Two awful footballing teams.

Onto Blackburn on Saturday. Why I'm going God only knows, another ground to tick of the list mind.

[Fernando]

Well Lee Grant has had an absolute mare 

Wolves 2-0 Derby

[NickisBHAFC]

Derby really have bottled this. 

Championship keepers seem to be taking it in turns to make a comedy mistake!

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

I tell you what Derby are in real danger of missing the playoffs altogether now 

Will Hughes - 100% the next Tom Cleverley. Absolute passenger everytime I've seen him play

[NickisBHAFC]

Yeah I really don't rate Hughes a great deal. Has the odd stand out game here and there but so does every pro footballer! 100% not a future England, if even a future england player for that matter!

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Bournemouth vs Middlesborough
Watford vs Ipswich
Norwich vs Notts Forest

Some tasty games tomorrow between teams in the top 9 of the league.

[Derbymanc]

He's having a bad spot at the moment fella's (as is the whole team) Immense player when he's on his game (which he has been for most games this season)

We've got to pick something up next week or as Olly put, we're going to miss out on the playoffs as well. Got to hope Martin, Thorne and Buxton are back next week.

Whilst it's not an excuse though, would love to know what the ref was thinking at the end of the first half??????

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

LOVE YOU JONNY HOWSON

[Nico the gman]

Bournemouth totally outclassed us in every department,a blatant dive for the 2nd penalty,2nd bookable if the ref had got it right but it wouldn't have made a difference,Boruc could have sat in the stand and had a cuppa we still wouldn't have scored,well done Dimi for stopping a cricket score.

Our managers team selection once again has us all baffled, the rightback Kalas play's centrehalf and gets tortured,with our centrehalf Kenneth Omerouo sat on the bench,yet again plays the totally overrated, ineffective Adam Reach and drops Vossen to the bench to leave Bamford feeding on scraps as a lone striker absolutely shocking.

Tortured 1st half and yet the same line up for the 2nd half with no team change and no change in tactics,
We were garbage and so was our managers team selection,all round dross.

To get beat is one thing,to put on a no show in such an important game,and in front of a sell out away support is criminal,it borders on disgusting.

Bournemouth will go up Automatic they play good attacking attractive football and work hard for each other.

[GSC]

Fair play to Norwich. Better team won, looked a cut above Bournemouth, Derby and Boro when we played them.

Rather see Tyler Walker get a go up front with the season over and no fit strikers

[FootballLight]

How on earth have we managed to lose to Charlton today?

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

How on earth have we managed to lose to Charlton today?

They scored more goals

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Fair play to Norwich. Better team won, looked a cut above Bournemouth, Derby and Boro when we played them.

Rather see Tyler Walker get a go up front with the season over and no fit strikers

Yeah we were different gravy today, Hoolahan was absolutely majestic.

[GSC]

Yeah thought 3-1 was more fitting than 3-0 but we got outplayed

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Yeah thought 3-1 was more fitting than 3-0 but we got outplayed

You certainly looked decent first half, Antonio forced a good save from Ruddy at 0-0. Chris Burke deciding not to track Olsson second half was the big issue

[lorus59]

What is the capacity of Bournemouth's stadium? Under 11,000 for the Middlesbrough match. If they go up will that be the smallest ever in the PL?

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Would imagine Oldham was similar size?

[NickisBHAFC]

Really really don't want Bourenmouth to go up. Then we have to hear on average 15 times a week punters refer to them as "little old Bourenmouth" when they've probably got one of the best budgets in the league and spend money like it's going out of fashion!

[Derbymanc]

If they go up then they deserve it, doesn't matter how many fans they've got or how much of their chairmans money they use.

If other clubs chairmans thought their club was worth it they'd pump the money in too.

[NickisBHAFC]

Yeah I never said it wouldn't be deserved. Think Howe is a superb manager but i simply don't want them to go up. Sadly it's probably going to happen.

[Nico the gman]

If they go up then they deserve it, doesn't matter how many fans they've got or how much of their chairmans money they use.

If other clubs chairmans thought their club was worth it they'd pump the money in too.

Spot on Derbymanc,the league doesn't lie,over 46 games the best team wins the league, no excuses, no hard luck stories.

[dyrewolfe]

Bournemouth totally outclassed us in every department,a blatant dive for the 2nd penalty,2nd bookable if the ref had got it right but it wouldn't have made a difference,Boruc could have sat in the stand and had a cuppa we still wouldn't have scored,well done Dimi for stopping a cricket score.

Our managers team selection once again has us all baffled, the rightback Kalas play's centrehalf and gets tortured,with our centrehalf Kenneth Omerouo sat on the bench,yet again plays the totally overrated, ineffective Adam Reach and drops Vossen to the bench to leave Bamford feeding on scraps as a lone striker absolutely shocking.

Tortured 1st half and yet the same line up for the 2nd half with no team change and no change in tactics,
We were garbage and so was our managers team selection,all round dross.

To get beat is one thing,to put on a no show in such an important game,and in front of a sell out away support is criminal,it borders on disgusting.

Bournemouth will go up Automatic they play good attacking attractive football and work hard for each other.

Yeah - that was horrible to watch (unless you're a Cherries fan). Faintly reminiscent of the cup game against Arsenal...though we did see a bit more of the ball, at least.

Can't even complain about the 2nd penalty - as you said it wouldn't have made a difference to the outcome.

Only good thing about it is that Karanka will work the players doubly hard in training to make sure we don't produce a similar performance against Wigan. Should be a decent home win...but with Boro you just never know...

[Nico the gman]

Bournemouths Harry Arter,I am not a diver,yes son you are,even Eddie Howe has admitted there was no contact for the 2nd penalty.

[Fernando]

Bournemouth have signed Kenwyne Jones on loan
Reading have signed Nathan Ake on Loan
Middlesborugh have signed Fernando Amorebieta on Loan with James Husband heading to Fulham.

[westisbest]

What is the capacity of Bournemouth's stadium? Under 11,000 for the Middlesbrough match. If they go up will that be the smallest ever in the PL?

12,000.

Think they will have to expand if they go up.

[westisbest]

Bournemouths Harry Arter,I am not a diver,yes son you are,even Eddie Howe has admitted there was no contact for the 2nd penalty.

Talking to the head steward at work earlier, said Arter can be a dirty player.
Late with tackles etc.

Has been one of their best players though this season.
Certainly knows where the goal is.

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